, 1887-01-29
THE HORIZONS ATTACKED.

attended the session or the House TINS AFTER
noon to hear the discussion upon the Anti
POlygamy bill, that measure-the House
substitute for the Senate bill-was passed
without division and without so much
as a demand for a rOllcall. The speech
es for the bill were short, while
those in opposition to it were long
and were all made from the Democratic
side. After Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio, had open.
Ell the debate, Mr.. Caine, the Delegate
FROM Utah, spoke at length in praise of
the patriotism, piety, and thrift OF his peo-
Pile, who had made a desert to blossom as
"a garden of flowers, and denounced the
bill as an oppressive and euSlaVing one,
directed against a law abiding and peace
loving people. Mr.. Bennett, of North
Carolina, who opposed the bill, is a loud
vnicpd, vehement orator, who sometimes
dung his books about t. the imminent
peril of his neiglhOrS, and who considered
the bill rs unnecessary, upon the assur-
anceS of the Interior Department and the
Utah Commission that the Edmunds law
was successfully enforced, and an extra
ordinary percentage of convictions obtain.
ed under it. Mr.. Reid, who followed
Mr.. Bennett, did not consume much
time, bat he spoke very effectively. He
regarded the right Of the Government over
the Territories as complete, and while he
gaVOured lOcAl self government he denied
the right of people TO set up in Territories
such claims as the MOrmOnS had asserted
to establish a hierarchy that WAS not only
a church but a policy. Mr.. CaSwell, of
Wisconsin, who expressed his unwilling
ness to Cypress the MOrmOnS, and his
belief in the bill, was followed by Mr..
Tucker, who closed the debate. Mr..
Bennett who had opposed the bill, had
referred to a speech of Mr.. fuckers, made
years ago, in which he had opposed an
anti.pOlygamy bill rs unconstitutional.
MIR. Tucker was not, he said, embarrassed
by that speech. If he had held any doubt
about the pOwer under the Constitution to
deprive the residents of Il Territory of the
right to vote, the Supreme Court hail
removed that doubt by deciding that Con.
greSS had that power. The bill had been
very carefully considered, and if he did
not believe it was Il good bill lac would not
support it. Every member who knew how
patiently and critically he had examined
the hill in committee, when il was under
consideration, and many members who did
not know that, but who regard Mr..
Tucker as a difficult lawyer to convince,
were unqueStiOnably influenced by the
speech and prepared for the easy passage
Of the bill that followed. 1t is the opinion
Uf members of the judiciary Committee
that the Senate will accept the bill as
amended.
The bill as passed. lkeS the lawful has
hand or wife of any person prosecuted for
tigamy, ~pOlygAmy, or unlawful cOhabita-
ton, n competent Witness against the
accused, and further provides for the re-
giStratiOn3of all marriages, making it a
m~is1emeanOr for any person to violate the
provisions relative to such registration.
1t annulS all territorial laws provided for
the Identification of the votes of electors at
amy elections, and also all laws cOnferring
ON the Territorial courts the power to de-
tcrmine divorce cases, II abOlisheS wO-
man SUFFRAGE in the Territory of Utah.
Penalties are prescribed for unlawful inter
course aIrl %pOlygamy is defined as a
marriage between one person of one sex
aud more than one person of another sex,
and is declared TO be a felony. The inan-
cial corporations known as the Church of
Latter Day Saints and the Perpetual Emf.
grafton Fund Company are dissolved, and
the AttOrney-Ge General is directed to wind
them up by process of court; aud all laws
for the organization of the militia of the
Territory and the creation Of the. NauvOO
Legion are annulled. POlygamiSts are
made ineligible to vote, and a test oath is
prescribed to all persons desiring to vote
that they will obey the laws in respect to
the crimes defined in this aud the original
Edmunds act. The bill provides for the
immediate anOOintment ~ the President